Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Gratitude
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Writers
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Army
The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Voting
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Class
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Religion
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Education, Weapon
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Navy, Army, The Military
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Words, Weapon
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Death, Statistics
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Socialism, Communism
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: Revolutionaries, Revolution, Revolutions
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
—Joseph Stalin
Topics: America
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